Johnny Spector, a high-school teacher on Chicago's north-west side, becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life and the violence of the streets until he meets Marlyn Valentin, a student who challenges his growing indifference...
John Spector is a seasoned high school teacher with 22 years in the trenches of a ghetto school filled with struggling teenagers, gangs, apathetic students- but also students "who make an indelible impression, kids with souls and hearts as big as the...
It’s 1964, and thirteen-year-old Catholic school student Jamie Presto pulls off the impossible -- he becomes pen-pals with world famous rock and roll idol John Lennon, a relationship that ultimately helps save his young life....
These stories, Greg Herriges says, were born of individual, fleeting glimpses and memories, seemingly unbound by any linear reason. But once they were arranged in this collection, the recurring themes were evident-of desire and loss, of the intense i...
Parents Jesse and Nina Dillon struggle to save their daughter from acute lymphocytic childhood leukemia, and grow spiritually independent throughout their ordeal....
With his customary pyrotechnics, Herriges gives us a "what if" tale written in a swift, agile manner that has become his signature style over the course of seven luminous novels. So you thought Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in 1959, right? Rudolp...